Word: wrung
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some of them from their beds. He reminded them that while negotiators agreed to educational tax breaks that Clinton had wanted, they also accepted Republican demands for a capital-gains rate cut, an increase in the estate-tax exemption and a $500-per-child tax credit. Altogether Republicans had wrung $85 billion in net tax cuts out of the President, $60 billion more than he had first proposed. Plus Gingrich was able to argue that the deal's $115 billion in Medicare savings, in which the parties split their difference, would rid the G.O.P. for a while of the issue...
Four years ago, when she was 47, Nina Shandler turned into a red-eyed wretch, wrung out by hot flashes that banished sleep. There she was, lying in bed, soaking in her own sweat, awakened "at two-hour intervals every single night by a self-generated tropical typhoon." She knew the term hot flash but hadn't expected to encounter one this side of 50. What conventional wisdom had neglected to convey to Shandler is that long before menopause occurs and menstrual cycles cease, women in their 30s and 40s can be subject to distressing symptoms. Like adolescence in reverse...
...soggy Harvard community wrung out, mopped up and towelled off yesterday in the aftermath of the weekend's ferocious winds and rain...
Where he was in late February was in trouble. Talk of a brokered convention surfaced as party elders wrung their hands. But Dole's team had astutely built a fire wall in South Carolina. Prudently preparing for the danger they didn't expect but were in fact facing after New Hampshire, they had earlier recruited the players, like former Governor Caroll Campbell, who would on March 2 deliver the Southern state everyone deemed critical to capturing the entire region. After South Carolina, the rest of the primary march was anticlimactic. Grand plans were hatched for the months before the August...
What's more, the notion that tying the dollar to gold is needed to keep inflation low is simply false, mainstream economists say, and makes Forbes' passion almost inexplicable. Ever since Fed chairman Paul Volcker, whom Forbes calls an "obtuse man," wrung double-digit inflation out of the economy in the early 1980s, yearly price increases have averaged 3% to 3.5%. Yet despite this climate, Forbes called on the Treasury Department last year to issue bonds that were indexed to inflation to eliminate this unacceptable risk to principal...